Giveaway, finally!!
All you have to do is just tell me your favourite memory of this time of year … Autumn, Hallowe’en, Thanksgiving etc… . I will pick the winner on Sunday Oct. 4 so it leaves me enough time to get it to you before Hallowe’en!. Please feel free to spread the word, if I get enough responses, I’ll make another something and have 2 draws! lol
1Betty Miller
wrote on 28 September 2009 at 17:50
My favorite Halloween was taking my grandkids out in my neighborhood to trick or treat- the leaves crunching on the street , the smell of burning leaves and the sound of children’s voices everywhere, the sound of joy. They were 6 .7, and 8 that year. At home my daughter was giving out treats and making hot apple cider for any friends that came around. I love your piece it is very inventive. Happy Halloween!!!
2tolegranny
wrote on 29 September 2009 at 12:10
I love it. Never had anything like it before. Halloween is my favourite time of year for art and colour. It’s a lovely piece and a great gift for the winner. Pick me…pick me.
3Kelly B
wrote on 29 September 2009 at 19:16
great blog candy! please enter me in your draw!
my favorite memory was Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago. My mom was dying of cancer and it was the last family get together we had with her.
4June
wrote on 29 September 2009 at 19:25
My favorite memory of autumn goes back a long way to when I was a kid growing up on a farm in Manitoba. Fall meant harvest time. There was always excitement taking lunch out to the men on the combines and helping to prepare a late dinner as after it became too damp for the men to harvest. Sometime there would be a harvest moon, which took your breath away. I’ve always loved autumn
5Joanne
wrote on 29 September 2009 at 20:53
Lovely Halloween prize Mary-Beth. My favourite memory of Halloween is when my sister and I became too old to go trick or treating, we took over taking the 3 youngest out. Being in a small community everyone always recognized the boy and 2 girls no matter how we dressed them in costumes. One year Mom gor 3 plastic wigs and we dressed all 3 as old ladies in long dresses from the dress-up box complete with hats with veils. No one recognized the 3 girls. The drawback was that lots of people had special treats for the Appletons, but since they weren’t recognized the treats didn’t get given. I think they brought them over the next day asking why the kids didn’t come. Great fun.
6LindaE.
wrote on 29 September 2009 at 21:00
Hallowe’en!!! I love it! Loved it when I was a kid and still love it now. I remember one year when I was taking my daughter and her girlfriend around for Hallowe’en and her friend twisted her ankle on a sidewalk. I asked her if she wanted to go home but no way was she quitting. I kept asking her if she was alright but she insisted she was fine. The next day we found out she had broken her ankle! SheeeesH! What some kids won’t put up with for some candy.
lol Well I am not any better. I just love those molasses kisses. And yes… I still dress up for Hallowe’en. This year I am going to be a snorkeller being eaten by a jellyfish! I have a dome shaped umbrella that is transparent and I will attach strips of bubble wrap for the tendrils. This is gonna be a hoot!!! LOL
By the way, thanks for the giveaway even though I probably won’t win lol.
7Kim Prince
wrote on 29 September 2009 at 21:16
Hi Mary-Beth! I just came accross your blog and was so excited to see your new works!! I think my favorite Halloween memory was one year when my boys were little they dressed up as gypsy women…omgosh…they had on make up, wigs, dresses…they had so much fun with it that it just made everyone laugh! Ahhh..I miss those days when they were young…:)
Have a great day and again, awesome to find your blog again Mary-Beth!!
Kim
8Mel
wrote on 29 September 2009 at 21:20
MB I love this so much!!!
Mel
9Donna C.
wrote on 30 September 2009 at 5:16
Ooooh, gave me the shivers. I love remembering a retired doctor in town who lived in a big old house on the river and how he’d set up for Halloween. He and his wife set a big harvest table complete with pumpkin and Indian corn centerpiece, candlesticks and pewter chargers. Best of all, at the head of the table sat….A SKELETON! Whether it was real or a medical repro it didn’t matter because it sure looked real and he used to tell all the kids that it was the skeleton of an Indian princess. True or not, it made a great tale as we’d stare at the bony fingers wrapped around the computer mug. They also passed out the best candy bars and, if your dog tagged along, you’d get a MilkBone in the bag as well!
10Linda Cameron
wrote on 30 September 2009 at 6:38
I love the spooky piece!! My favorite memory of Autumn is the annual “Leaf Tour” that we go on every year, often stopping for dinner at a lodge deep in the Ontario woods for dinner. It is especially lovely if our (adult) daughter accompanies us. It’s her favorite time of year too!
11robyn Josephs
wrote on 30 September 2009 at 10:06
We had an apple tree with a hugh limb just the right height for kids to climb into and built a giant leaf pile each fall. Neighbors would bring their leaves to add to it. On a dry cool moon lite night the whole neighborhood would gather to have a small fire, drink hot cider and jump into the leaves.
Fall blessings,
Robyn
12Anne A.
wrote on 30 September 2009 at 10:12
Mary-Beth, it was fun to read about everyone’s favorite Halloween. I loved Halloween as a kid as I got special treats from the neighbours. I didn’t dress up to much in case they didn’t recognize me. I went back to one house three tmes every year for special fudge. I could tell she was pleased. Now I live in North Saanich, a quiet community in the boonies and got “egged” for the first time. It took me days to clean it up. Even painted the garage door. that part was not fun.
13Michele
wrote on 30 September 2009 at 20:08
Please enter me! My favorite memory is going to the Pumpkin Festival in Keene, NH. Hundreds and hundreds of carved/decorated pumpkins trying to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most lit pumpkins in one place! A few years ago it did happen!
14Pam Barnes
wrote on 1 October 2009 at 9:16
Wonderful giveaway MaryBeth.
My favorite memory of this time of year took place 35 years ago when my daughter was born.
Lots of great art on your blog. Thanks for sharing. Pam
15Lynne Ross
wrote on 1 October 2009 at 12:01
My ‘only’ memory of Halloween wasn’t such a great one…my cousins and I always went out together to trick or treat. This night was snowing (no surprise there, I’m from Newfoundland) and these 2 big guys ran up behind us and stole my bag of treats!! My bag was almost full. Needless to say I cried all the way back home. My cousins invited me into their home and there they shared all their treats with me, so I guess it’s not such a bad memory after all.
Happy Halloween everyone….hope I win!!
16Ann Stout
wrote on 2 October 2009 at 8:55
Those old plastic masks with the rubber band to hold them on your head. They were so hot underneath. And you could never see out the eyeholes.The plastic costumes were too hot too. They would stick to you causing it to be almost unbearable. Also the homemade treats you would get in your neighborhood while on your trek. Can’t get that anymore because of the idiots who taint the stuff.
I do miss those GOOD OLD DAYS….
17Nancy
wrote on 3 October 2009 at 6:42
One of my favorite memories is taking my daughter trick or treating with my parents – my dad loved taking part in all of it! Tomorrow, I’ll have a new wonderful memory – it’ll be my wedding day!
(Love your creation – especially the embellishments of the frame!)
18kate blue
wrote on 15 October 2009 at 9:53
My fav goes WAAY back to about the age of 8..me & my sisters in fantastic princess homemade costumes, pillowcases full of candy-meeting back at home at an appointed time and dumping mounds of candy in the living room so mom could check the candy and popcorn balls (it was safe in the 70’s) and then we’d all swap candy-I didn’t like chocolate so I wanted to trade for bubble gum and hard candy! Then, if we had time, we’d go back through other neighborhoods for more!